John White Hughes Bassett, PC CC OOnt (August 25, 1915 – April 27, 1998) was a Canadian media proprietor. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, he was the son of John...
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of Llantrithyd, Wales, MP for Old Sarum John D. Bassett (1866–1965), American industrialist John W. H. Bassett (1915–1998), Canadian publisher, media baron...
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daughter of John F. Bassett and Susan Carling, and the granddaughter of media baron John W. H. Bassett and politician and brewery executive John Carling. She...
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The John W. H. Bassett Theatre is a multi-purpose theatre located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada on Front Street, in the Metro Toronto Convention...
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John F. Bassett (February 5, 1939 – May 15, 1986) was a Canadian tennis player, businessman, and film producer. Bassett won the Canadian Open Junior Doubles...
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Douglas Graeme Bassett, OC OOnt (born June 22, 1940) is a Canadian media executive. Born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of John W. H. Bassett, he is the former...
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including a stint with W5, after marrying Baton Broadcasting owner John W. H. Bassett on July 17, 1967. Although her documentary work for CTV won numerous...
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Globe and Mail and Toronto Star Isabel Bassett - also a reporter at CFTO and wife of publisher John W. H. Bassett, later a provincial cabinet minister under...
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Joshua Taylor Bassett (born December 22, 2000) is an American actor and singer. He began his career as a teen actor, appearing on the Disney Channel family...
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events within the Record's service area. Future Canadian media barons John W. H. Bassett and Conrad Black both got their starts in newspaper ownership as owner...
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(then owned by Ballard's former partner John W. H. Bassett) ensured it never went anywhere. In 1974, when Bassett put the Toronto Argonauts up for sale...
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Scott Young (writer) (category Articles with hCards)
Canada until getting on the wrong side of Toronto Maple Leafs co-owner John W. H. Bassett. The Leafs threatened HNIC's sponsor and advertising agency until...
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near the bottom of the East. The management style under new owner John W. H. Bassett has also been blamed: young talent was traded or allowed to leave...
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CTV network was created in 1961 in part because Toronto businessman John W. H. Bassett had won the television rights to the Eastern Football Conference,...
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Hamilton Tiger-Cats were blacked out in that market. CFTO-TV's owner, John W. H. Bassett applied to the Board of Broadcast Governors for permission to set...
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Conn Smythe (category Articles with hCards)
seven-person committee, headed by his son Stafford. Newspaper owner John W. H. Bassett was another member of the committee, as was Percy Gardiner's son,...
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Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an American actress. Known for her work in film and television since the 1980s, she has received various...
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Toronto Maple Leafs (category Articles with hCards)
composed of his son Stafford Smythe, and his partners, newspaper baron John W. H. Bassett and Toronto Marlboros president Harold Ballard. The sale price was...
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and quiet study. The Library Learning Commons—formerly known as the John Bassett Memorial Library prior to extensive renovations completed in 2018—provides...
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years. However, in November 1961, along with partners Ballard and John W. H. Bassett—both members of the Silver Seven—Stafford Smythe bought control of...
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Toronto permanently, and was sold to John F. Bassett, son of media mogul and former Leafs part-owner John W. H. Bassett. Future Leafs owner Steve Stavro was...
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W5 (TV program) (redirect from W-Five)
quit only a few weeks into the first season of W5, in a dispute with John W. H. Bassett, who owned the CTV network's biggest station, CFTO-TV in Toronto....
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such as Prairie Farmer.[relevant?] In 1960, Canadian entrepreneur John W. H. Bassett, who was trying to establish a television station in Toronto, Ontario...
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the proposal never went anywhere. In 1974, when his former partner John W. H. Bassett put the Argonauts up for sale for $3.3 million, Ballard expressed...
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Bassett is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: John Spencer Bassett (1867–1928), American professor at Trinity College (Duke University)...
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Gilles Grangier, French director and screenwriter (b. 1911) 1998 – John W. H. Bassett, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1915) 1998 – Carlos Castaneda...
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partnership formed by his son, Stafford Smythe, with Harold Ballard and John W. H. Bassett. The new ownership added 962 new seats to the Gardens in 1962 and...
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"Kitty" (August 24, 1824 – July 9, 1922). She married W. W. Hill, and they had ten children; John H. Bassett (December 21, 1827 – February 4, 1915). He married...
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company created under a joint venture between John W. H. Bassett's Toronto Telegram newspaper and businessman John David Eaton (a member of the prominent Eaton...
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President/Owner) John W. H. Bassett (Chairman/Owner), George Punch Imlach (Manager-Coach) Frank King Clancy (Asst. Manager-Coach), Bob Davidson (Chief Scout) John Anderson...
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